Blogs

A new study was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and has been titled “Inexpensive Heating Reduces Winter Mortality.” It came out in March of this year and has some interesting findings, most specifically the research provides that “lower heating prices reduce mortality in winter months…[and] that the drop in natural gas prices in the late 2000s, induced largely by the boom in shale gas production, averted 11,000 winter deaths per year in the U. S.” You can view the study at https://www.nber.org/papers/w25681.pdf.

The American Gas Association (AGA) also wrote a blog with interesting insight on the recent study at http://www.truebluenaturalgas.org/affordable-energy-saves-lives-study/.
APGA is committed to helping its members continue to advocate for the direct use of natural gas. This energy source is clean, reliable, efficient, and abundant, and as these new findings show, can provide lower energy costs for consumers, especially the most vulnerable.

For questions on this article, please contact Stuart Saulters of APGA staff by phone at 202-464-2742 or by email at ssaulters@apga.org.